Today's News

BOLIVIA—Brunswick County commissioners have called the bonds for 11 The Coastal Companies properties.

The infrastructure bonds for the 11 communities under the umbrella of The Coastal Companies total $11.56 million, Brunswick County Attorney Huey Marshall said.

The decision was approved four votes to one, with commissioner Charles Warren dissenting. There was no discussion because the item was not on the action agenda. It was on the consent agenda and approved with a lump sum of other items.

Local law enforcement officials are investigating the death of a 3-year-old child in Shallotte. According to Brunswick County coroner Greg White, the child was pronounced dead around 9 a.m. Thursday morning at the Brunswick Novant Medical Center's emergency room.

SHALLOTTE—A 3-year-old boy is dead and the man who left him at a local hospital is in jail following a high-speed police chase in Shallotte last Thursday.

A second suspect was taken into custody on drug charges following a search of a Shallotte residence where the boy may have been fatally injured.

“There are two suspects, and they are both in jail on different charges,” said Rodney Gause, Shallotte police chief, on Tuesday afternoon. “There were two suspects in the house: one on the chase and one in the house.”

SHALLOTTE—Eleven-year-old Benjamin Higgins is a fifth-grade student at Union Elementary School and he has the chance to win $50,000 for a new cafeteria facility for the school.

But he can’t win without your help.

Higgins entered the Uncle Ben’s-Ben’s Beginners Cooking Contest. As a finalist he is mere votes away from bringing home a $50,000 prize for Union Elementary, $20,000 for his family and winning a trip to appear on the Rachael Ray Show.

Brunswick Community College is standing united with other North Carolina Community Colleges in asking the state to restore community college funding.

“We need restoration of funds to meet our overall goals,” said Susanne Adams, president of BCC. “We keep hearing that community colleges are going to fix this economy but that is not reflected in our budgeted money.